Summary
This tool was developed to collect international and cross-culturally comparable assessment data on individuals' quality of life. Quality of life is intended as measurement of health, frequency and severity of diseases, physical health, psychological state, personal beliefs, social relationships and their relationship to salient features of their environment.
It is a self-administered or interviewer-administered questionnaire, 26 items.
Additional information
Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment. The WHOQOL Group. (1998) Psychol Med, 28(3), 551-558.
Skevington SM, Lotfy M, O'Connel KA, WHOQOL Group. (2004). The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. A report from the WHOQOL group. Quality of Life Research, 13(2), 299-310.
Berlim MT, Pavanello DP, Caldieraro MAK, Fleck MP. (2005). Reliability and validity of the WHOQOL BREF in a sample of Brazilian outpatients with major depression. Quality of Life Research, 14(2), 561-564.
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